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River swimming in the Aare is popular in Bern, and the river is sometimes full of bathers on summer days. The river soon changes its northwesterly flow for a due westerly direction, but after receiving the Saane or La Sarine it turns north until it nears Aarberg.
The Aare peninsula and the Old City. Along the river from left to right: Kirchenfeldbrücke, Nydeggbrücke, Untertorbrücke, Kornhausbrücke. This is a list of the 18 bridges spanning the river Aare on the territory of the city of Bern, Switzerland.
The Auguetbrücke is a bridge over the Aare between the municipalities of Muri bei Bern and Belp in the Canton of Bern in Switzerland. [1] During the 18th and at the beginning of the 19th century, four ferries crossed the Aare river between Bern and Thun. Increasing freight traffic from local farms at the beginning of the 19th century ...
The Nydeggbrücke is a bridge in Bern, Switzerland which connects the eastern part of the old city to the new part. It crosses over the Aare and is located very close to the Bärengraben. It was built in parallel to the Untertorbrücke in 1840, which until then had been the only bridge crossing the Aare. The Nydeggbrücke is in total 190 meters ...
Aare, part of the boundary between the canton of Solothurn with the cantons of Aargau and Bern; Alpine Rhine canal, part of the border between the cantons of St. Gallen and Grisons (Graubünden) Biber, part of the boundary between the cantons of Zug and Schwyz; Birs, short sections of the boundary between the cantons of Basel-Landschaft and ...
The need for a river crossing became urgent soon after the founding of Bern in 1191. [3] The young city-state's first attempt at building a wooden bridge over the Aare triggered a war with Count Hartmann of the powerful House of Kyburg that controlled the territory east of the Aare. [4]
The bridge was first built in 1469 to replace a ferry crossing over the Aare. The bridge eventually became part of two major roads that helped Bern control its extensive territory north of the river. The road into the Berner Seeland passed over the bridge before traveling to Meikirch , while the other road ran into the Fraubrunnenamt after ...
Aare (5 C, 13 P) Pages in category "Rivers of the canton of Bern" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. ... Sense (river) Simme; Suze (river ...